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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 10, 2019
Dilweg acquires Concourse Center, four-building Westshore office complex

$52 million purchase brings company's Florida holdings to 1.2 million square feet

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • November 17, 2017
Economic Forecast 2018 - By the Numbers

Charts paint the picture for the region.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2004
Building Made Easy

You won't hear Anthony Mazzucca complain about the permitting process in Sarasota and Manatee counties. No way. Not after waiting 10 years for a permit in New Jersey.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 8, 2024
Publix pays $223 million for seven Florida shopping centers

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Sarasota County is conserving more than 600 acres, a Tampa industrial building sells to New Jersey buyers, and Venice is getting a new 7-Eleven.

  • Florida
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • January 13, 2022
Globetrotting entrepreneur finds her passion in travel

With an ‘all the world’s a stage’ mindset Colette Eddy has rarely met a trip she wasn't excited about.

  • Out of Office
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 5, 2018
Word for 2018: '20-Great-teen!

Despite the World of Trump, we can continue to turn the tide with our own decorum and the push for economic freedom.

  • Opinion
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 5, 2014
Why not to expand Medicaid

Nary a day goes by without some editorial writer haranguing Florida's governor and Republican-controlled Legislature for not taking federal tax dollars to expand Florida's Medicaid program.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 20, 2006
Corporate Report

Look at business briefs from around the Gulf Coast for free.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 4, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Profile: John Harshman, President and Founder, Harshman & Co. Inc., Sarasota

John Harshman formed Harshman & Co. in downtown Sarasota in 1989, seven years after beginning his commercial real estate career.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2018
Prominent area attorney, firm storyteller and mentor, dies

Robert “Doc” Benjamin used a combination of wit, wisdom and a "yes we can" work ethic, became one of the most prominent business attorneys in the Sarasota-Manatee region for three decades.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 25, 2023
Tampa office building sold for $123 million

A homebuilder gets a $38 million loan in Pasco, a Brooklyn buyer picks up an apartment complex in Sarasota, and a Naples shopping center changes hand in the week's top commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 24, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: Sept. 24 - Sept. 30

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2014
Corporate Report

Fintech, Wal-Mart expand agreement to include another 4,000 retail stores; Health Insurance Innovations hires former Bloomin' Brands CFO; Sarasota health center changes to concierge model; PP+K awarded work for national clients; Pilgrim Quality Solutions hires former Liquent exec as CFO; Western, Southern Life Insurance expands with new Tampa location

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 20, 2020
Tourism agency appoints former Disney exec to leadership post

Paul Beirnes has worked for both Disney and Visit Orlando.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 21, 2014
Contentment is the enemy

Visit Sarasota County president Virginia Haley spent a recent lunch hour telling area hotel sales and marketing executives about how good the county has been doing in tourism.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 29, 2018
Tampa Bay Bucs executive buys iconic area hotel

Tampa Bay Bucs executive buys famed Vinoy Renaissance resort in St. Petersburg, the latest in a string of high-profile lodging deals.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 6, 2006
Coffee Talk

Bam! Emeril will return to Naples: Star chef Emeril Lagasse will return to the Naples Winter Wine Festival in January, Coffee Talk hears.A new vision for Fisher: When entrepreneur Bill Fisher resigned as Southeast Division dealer development manager for Visionary Vehicles in late 2005, Coffee Talk had a feeling there might be a story to follow. Big doings in Sarasota: The talk percolating through Sarasota County's economic development circles is that a company with $1 billion in annual revenue soon will be announcing the relocation of its corporate headquarters staff to Sarasota.Builders Split: Some of the largest members of the Pasco Building Association say it's wrong to sue Pasco County over its recently adopted comprehensive growth management plan, even though they disagree with the new rules that they consider anti-growth.Soft landing in Fort Myers?: Southwest Florida International Airport's record-breaking passenger counts may be showing signs of leveling off, the latest numbers show.Banking the campaigns: With two former Sarasota bankers in the running for Katherine Harris' U.S. Congressional seat, Coffee Talk decided to take a peek at what all the potential candidates have been getting from banks in terms of campaign donations.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Sheen Todd still interested in clerk post?Falkner v. Falkner, part twoInfinium Labs Inc. of Sarasota released it pricing scale for its new Phantom gaming system

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • April 30, 2010
Next-Gen Goals

Brian Boyer and Travis Norris practically grew up with DataComm Networks. Now, as owners the last two years, they want to take the IT firm to new heights while retaining top employees through generous benefits.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 19, 2010
November Consumer Durables

Naples was the last area of the Gulf Coast region to feel the effects of the economic downturn and that's reflected in the steepest year-over-year decline in consumer durable taxable sales in November.

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